I think this was taken around 1993, at the Scottish Rites Temple in Oakland, California. Some friends and I had gone there for a camera swap, basically a camera show cum flea market event of the type that is held periodically in various cities in the US. My friend Mark had bought some outdated Polaroid film for his SX-70, and we decided to test it out outside. Someone must have taken a shot of one of us coming out of these extremely heavy doors, and what started as a test became some sort of collaborative project on the spot, each of us taking turns exiting the door or taking a picture, and all of us being so taken with the discolorization of the outdated film, the random bursts of color here and there, and how that combined with the heavy-handed yet somehow tacky freemason imagery on the doors. We spent the afternoon going in and out of that door, trying on different expressions, and assembling and re-assembling the polaroids on the ground. A few days later color copies were made and we attempted to make a poster out of the photos, but as was typical in those days we started disagreeing about ownership of the photos and in the end we never made anything. However, some years later I took my set of copies and made a poster on my own, which you can see a photo of here.